New Nation, 27 December 1976

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  • 21 1 New Nation 'SINGAPORE Monday December 27, 1976 No. 1831 Price 25 cents M.C. (P) 428/76 r 1 NEW (£0) NATION COMMENT
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  • 388 1 Class periods cut down to 40 a week Senior Minister of State for Education Mr. Chai Chong Yii this morning announced adjustments to the secondary one curriculum to ease the pupils' transition from primary school. The adjustments Include a reduction in the class
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  • 116 1 Reuter Kuala Lumpur, Monday The United Malay National Organisation was reminded over the weekend to make preparations for the general elections which may be held earlier than 1979. Selangor's Mentri Besar, Datuk Hormat Rafai. told members that there was a possibility that the* general
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  • 312 1 Reuter New York, Monday President -elect Jimmy Carter has been named Man of the Year for 1976 by Time magazine, and the weekly says he expects to meet next year with Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid Brezhnev. Mr. Carter was quoted as saying he envisages a
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  • 142 1 This Is May Wong, the Malaysian mother of three and her Singapore lover Li Jaafar Mah, who pleaded guilty In a London court last week of conspiring with others to supply more than $2 million worth of heroin Into Britain. May, 30, who was born in
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 60 1 Kin Song: Open letter to Gani Page 18 Dear Ros Page 10 IN THE OTHER PAGES: Cinemas 2; Stars 9; Crossword 14; Comics 17; Moneywords 18. 424 for 5 Adelaide, Monday Australia were 424 for five wickets In their first innings in reply to Pakistan's 272 at lunch on the
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 267 2 Ministry to find out about home background and language abilities of Primary One kids More than 40,000 Primary One pupils who will enter school for the first time next year, will b«> asked to trive more information on their home barktiround :ni<l lanjy.iatfe abilities when
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  • 179 2 The Education Ministry will transfer at least seven primary school principals when schools reopen on Jan. 3. Mr. Charles Oomes, principal of Whampoa English School, will be transferred to the Ministry as education development officer. His place will be taken over by the school's senior
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  • 201 2 The Industrial Training Board has raised the limit of its housing loans from $65,000 to $100,000. An officer with at least one year's service is eligible for the loan. It will be based on Ave times his annual salary or the value of the house, whichever
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  • 161 2 Respect and care for the elders starts young with six-year-old Bernard Lim. Following a New Nation report early this month on the plight of an old couple living in a cubicle in Beneoolen Street. Bernard collected $104.40 from his father's employees and donated
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  • 119 2 The Singapore Police Force's Olympic -sized swimming pool at the Police Academy is expected to be opened early next year. Members of the Force. Special Constabulary and the Vigilante Corps and the Force's and Ministry of Home Affairs clerical and civilian staff and their immediate
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  • 104 2 Prices opened on a steady note in quiet trading during the first 45 minutes today at the Stock Exchange of Singapore. The cautious opening was believed to be influenced by reports of renewed communist insurgency in Thailand. BUSINESS DONE: First Section C. SUGARS (3) 1.22. 88. Sett.:
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  • 36 2 The Workers' Party held a rally at a vacant lot in front of house No: 8 Jalan Rimau and not at No: 8 Jalan Rimau as reported in the New Nation on Dec. 17.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 46 2 Today: 2.45 p.m. (2.6m) Tomorrow: 3.48 a.m. <2.5m); 3.37 p.m. (2.4m) Wednesday: 4.31 a.m <2.4m); 4.43 p.m. (2.1m) Thursday; 5.22 a.m. <24m); 6.18 p.m. <2m). Friday: 6.23 a.m. <2.4m); 8.16 p.m. (2m). Saturday: 7.24 a.m. (2.4m); 9.27 p.m. (2.1m). Sunday: 8.19 a.m (2.5m); 10.10 n.m .(2.3m)
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    • 498 2 AT THE CINEMA TOMMY: Ken Russell's spectacular presentation based on the rock opera by The Who. About a deaf, dumb and blind boy who becomes pinball champion of the world. Stars Roger Daltrey, Ann Magret. Oliver Reed, Jack Nicholson, Elton John, Tina Turner. The Who. Plaza: 1.30, 4, 6.45 and
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    • 257 2 WHAT'S ON FREE LEGAL ADVICE at PAP branch. Alexandra Lane, 8.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. A CHRISTMAS SHOW at Queenstown Branch Library, 7.30 p.m. FILMS, Rendezvous with the Sun, How Electricity is Made, Three E's Energy, Economics, Environment and Putting the Atom to Work, at Singapore Science Centre, off Jurong
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  • 11 2 Police reported 86 accidents yesterday. Three were serious and five fatal.
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  • 505 3  -  Opposition proposal: Dons pose question... By Rav Dhaliwal University dons have expressed mixed feelings on Mr. Lee Kuan Yew's recent suggestion that representatives from Nanyang University and University of Singapore form an opposition in Parliament. While the general reaction was that it could be a
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  • 295 3 In comparison with the 1972 general elections, the PAP Increased its percentage of votes cast in 33 constituencies last Thursday. The following are the constituencies in which the PAP increased the percentage of its vote (1972 percentage Is given In brackets): Aljunied, 73.5% (70.5);
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  • 124 3 Eight-year-old legless boy, Dasuki (left) adds music to carolsinging during a Christmas party at the Red Cross Home qn Christmas Day. Sitting on a table, he demonstrated his versatility on the bongos to the other handicapped children, much to their amusement. At the Home to bring
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  • 194 4  -  Unfair competition charge, so airline stops London reservations By Peter Ong Singapore Airlines has temporarily stopped taking reservations in London for the use of slumberettes on jumbo jet flights out of London following an order by the British Department of Trade. The order came after complaints
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  • 185 4 A total Of 450 HDB flats have been allocated to SAP personnel under the SAF priority housing scheme since 1973. Uncier the scheme, four per cent of all HOB flats are set aside for reservists and regulars, according to the latest Issue
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  • 52 4 The Singapore Institute of Management will conduct a course on practical cost and management accounting at the BIM conference room, Thong Teck Building, every Tuesday and Wednesday from 2.30 p.m. to 5 p.m. from Jan. 4 to March 9. The course fee Is $625 for members and $650
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  • 249 4  -  By Rav Dhaliwal They knew each other for 18 years and were fast friends... until one day in June last year when it struck them that they were in love. Come New Year's Day, they will say "I do* at St. Andrew's Cathedral. There
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  • 178 4 Singapore Armed Fdrces has adopted another nine charitable homes bringing the total num ber to 41. The latest "adoptions" followed a letter from the Ministry of Social Affairs Li« October, requesting SAF to adopt the nine homes. This is revealed in the latest Issue
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  • 294 4 Singapore will remain prosperous through a high-technology industrial market in the region if a free trade zone is developed within the next 10 years under the ASEAN Industrial Complementation Scheme. Dr. Ker Sin Tze, a lecturer at the University of Singapore said this In a
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  • 143 4 Singapore Airlines U to buy its seventh Boeing 747 late next year or in early 1978. This was told to 31 airport and sales ma- nagers from SlA's regional offlces-who were here to attend a marketing meeting recently. The Jumbo Jet will be put
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  • 318 4 Singapore Bus Service Is using a computer to keep check on its conductors' dally collections. The computer, which processes dally operational statistics, can Immediately tell low collections by conductors. It was this computer which recently helped SBB "catch" a conductor issuing forged bus tickets.
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  • 49 4 The Singapore Institute of Management will conduct a course on Measuring Business Efficiency at the SIM conference room. Thong Teck Building, on Jan. 31 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The course fee is $75 for members and $85 for non members. Closing date is Jan. 17.
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  • 179 5 UPI Talpeh, Monday—Premier Chiang Ching-kuo of Nationalist China said on Saturday his country will never abandon Its goal of recovering the China mainland. Addressing the 1976 National Assembjy Convention to mark the 29th anniversary of the country's constitution, the Premier said: "We have
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  • 379 5 25 hurt, 10 houses razed Reuter Cape Town, Monday Ten people were killed and at least 25 seriously injured in fighting between rival black group in, A f r i can townships near here yesterday, the South African Broadcasting Company (SABC) reported last night.
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  • 95 5 Reuter Salisbury, Monday Nearly 800 black bus workers spent their third day in prison yesterday after staging a Christ mas Eve strike which paralysed Sallbury's public transport system. A bus company spokesman said that 74 of the original 870 strikers arrested had decided to return to
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  • 330 5 Reuter Plains (Georgia), Monday After a slow and methodical talent search, Presidentelect Jimmy Carter has chosen a team of senior advisers in which experienced veterans clearly outnumber the fresh new faces many supporters expected him to introduce. It is an unexpected outcome for the man
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  • 154 5 AP New York, Monday Mr. Jimmy Carter's victory over President Ford in the US presidential election has been voted the top news story of 1976 in an annual poll of editors and news directors of Associated Press member newspapers and radio and television stations. They ranked
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  • 156 5 Reuter New Delhi, Monday Former Finance Minister Blnayak Acharya will become Chief Minister of. the eastern .state of Orissa when presidential rule there is revoked this week, the Samachar News Agency reported last night. Mr. Acharya, 58. was elected yesterday as leader of
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  • 170 5 Reuter Jerusalem, Monday President Ephralm Katzir, Israel's Head of State, yesterday consulted lead ers of the country's two biggest political parties on whether a new govern ment should be formed to replace the Cabinet of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Mr Rabin resigned last week
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  • 300 6 World Bank tells why Reuter Washington, Monday The standard of living declined in most countries in 1975 and only a handful of oilexporting nations made significant gains, according to World Bank statistics released yesterday. Economic stagnation in the developed countries and unabated population increases in developing nations
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  • 99 6 UPI Cairo, Monday—Dozens of passengers yesterday were still'feared missing from the Egyptian motor vessel fatra which caught Are and sank in the Red Sea. But there was still no official announcement on the number of passengers who were aboard the stricken 3920 tonne vessel,
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  • 29 6 AP Malmoe (Sweden), Monday—Hundreds of silktail birds feasting on fermented berries, became so drunk that they flew straight into the windshields of the cars here yesterday.—AP.
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  • Article, Illustration
    281 6 THANKS TO THAT COFFEE BREAK UPI AP Bangkok, Monday Bangkok's Christmas Day air tragedy would have claimed more lives had it not been for that welcome factory routine —the coffee break. All 43 passengers and nine crewmen aboard an Egyptian airliner and at least 18 people on the
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  • 51 6 UPI Bangkok, Monday The youth of Ho Chi Mlnh City (formerly Saigon) are building a "green belt" around the former South Vietnamese capital, the official Vietnam News Agency (VNA) said yesterday. The young people are planting fallow land In flowers, manioc and rice, VNA monitored in Bangkok
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  • 40 6 Reuter Manila, Monday The Philippines will host the first international. meeting of Chief Justices and Associate Justices of collegiate appellate courts from Jan 10 to liT at the seaside international convention centre here. Supreme Court sources said yesterday.
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  • 177 6 UPI TODAY is Monday, Dec. 27, the 362 nd day of 1976 with four to follow. THE MOON is approaching Its first quarter. THE MORNING STARS are Mars and Saturn. THE EVENING STARS are Mercury, Venus and Jupiter. Those born on this date are under the sign of Capricorn.
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  • 294 6  -  AMERICA GEORGE GORDON'S The ease of Lewis Cheat ham represents perhaps the must remarkable turnabout in the American way of divorce yet witnessed in the courts. Twenty-three years ago, truck-driver Lewis met an heiress who taught him to play golf. When they
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 71 6 WORLD WEATHER New York Rain, 45C. Headline: Carter set to draft economic package In talks this week. Paris Cold, 7-2C. Headline: Christmas: What a sales bomb. Rome Cloudy. 812C. Moscow Clear, 711C. Pravda's headline: The CPSU's central com mittee decision on organising and political work of Chelyabinsk Party regional committee
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    • 73 6 cast, 12 11C. Headline: 55 die In Thai Christmas air crash. Manila Cloudy, 3121C. Headline: Mindanao conflicts ends. Bangkok Cloudy, 32 24C. Sydney Sunny, 2819C. Headline: Thomson iniured in Test. Taipeli Cloudy, 2015C. UPI. Singapore The weather for the 24 hours to 7.30 a.m. today: Max. temp. 31.4C; min. temp.
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  • 293 7 UPI Peking, Monday China yesterday used Chairman Mao's bitthday to underline its continuing opposition to the Soviet "revisionist" brand of cotnmunism and scotch rumours of a SlnoSoviet rapprochement Chairman Mao, who died on Sept 9, would have been 83 yesterday. His birthday was
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  • 527 7 China's 4 major fighting tasks —Hua AP Tokyo, Monday Chairman Hua Kuo-feng called on China's 800 million people to carry out four major "fighting tasks" during 1977, the official Hslnhua News Agency reported yesterday. He made the call in a speech delivered to the second national agricultural conference held at
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  • 200 7 UPI Algiers, Monday The Polisario Front said yesterday its forces in Western Sahara shot down two Moroccan military planes and blew up a Mauritanian mineral train last week, the Algerian Press Service reported. In a dispatch from the so-called "liberated territories" of Western Sahara,
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  • 38 7 JPI Moscow, Monday Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin has sent a telegram of congratulations to Mr. Takeo Fukuda, Japan's new Prime Minister, the Tass news agency said yesterday, adding that Mr. Fuhuda replied with (hanks. TJPI.
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  • 320 7 AP New York, Monday. Messages of goodwill and hope crisscrossed the globe on Saturday as Christians celebrated the birth nearly two centuries ago of a man of peace. Pope Paul called for honouring "the birth of Christ the incipient life of man" and the Rev.
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  • 452 8 It was to have been southern Africa's year at the United Nations. But when the 31st session of the General Assembly recessed last week Instead of closing as was traditional, the idea was to leave open the possibility of a meeting early in the
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
    • 46 8 Did you read in today's Straits Times about the Opposition candidate who vent around on Sunday thanking those who voted for AND AGA- INST him in the tions. Either he is an extremely good loser, or he Is campaigning for the next elections.
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    • 30 8 A friend when asked whether he enjoyed his Christmas celebrations, said: "I don't know." Asked what he meant, he replied: *1 was drunk most of the time."
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  • 365 8 r f 3 VOICE OF THE PRESS NANYANG' SIANG PAL) Signs of economic recovery in the US, West Germany and Japan, beginning at the third quarter of last year seem to have petered off by the third quarter of this year and the situation appears to
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  • 158 8 ASAHI SHIMBUN Only time can tell what has caused the split In the once-mono-llthlc OPEC. However, we may speculate- that Saudi Arabia has staked peace in the Middle East on the moderate 5 per cent price increase, trusting in the future Carter-Vance diplomacy, which holds the
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  • 588 8  -  MONDAY WITH SONNY YAP SONNY YAP This being the season when oesophagus'canals literally overflowing with brandy, whisky, beer and a wines and spirits, I thousand other figure' you might as well imbibe some sobering (hie) thoughts on drinking. No .1 am not a member of a
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  • 417 8 Reuter Santa Monica (California). Wednesday A team of British medical researchers recently published a report that helps to explain why blood clots do not form in healthy arteries. It also helps to explain why clots may form in unhealthy arteries clots that can
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  • 828 9 Intrusion of politics has brought pullout threat by US Reuter A question. mark hangs over the future of the International Labour Organisation which seeks to improve working conditions and project basic human rights throughout the world. Solving problems between workers, employers and povernments Is the
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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    • 251 9 for m Ups v New Year f* happenings at Lr Goodwood 4 Group Hotels- J) m i v 0 J *> OS 5* «':JV V From Manila The Assembly Refreshingly a, different. mas <■■ ->% >v rf A ii *•> *5 y sfc J*' pPlwrPf Oft *i 5 «e in'
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 428 9 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTh'DAY BORN today, you are something of a pessimist by nature Atraid to count even a single chicken belore It hatches, you tend to wait with bated breath until the natural consequences of success are a reality rather than to rejoice over the success
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  • Dear Ros
    • 176 10 / 11 On my return from a holiday abroad, my daughter (who is not my husband's child) told me my husband had been going out with my sister in my absence. I am not on good lerms with my sister. When I confronted my
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    • 104 10 / 11 One of my colleagues has not been talking to me for some time and I do not know the reason. It may be due to a misunderstanding of which I am not aware. Should I approach him for the reason? VIRGO GIRL Dear Virgo Girl, I
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    • 237 10 / 11 I am 22 and have known A lor about four years. We don't date regularly and are not close in our relationship. Only when he Is free do we meet, sometimes twice a week and sometimes once a month. Whenever we meet
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    • 210 10 / 11 My girlfriend Is a niece of my halfsister. As a result of this family connection. our affair will be broken up. We are in our teens. However. we are determined to carry on. We would like to know. CAN we get approval from the
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    • 330 10 / 11  -  L.E.O. I met this girl three years ago and we used to go out In a group. One night alter drinking. we became intimate. Alter that we began to go out more often, but soon quarrelled and broke up Nowadays we only meet In a group, even
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  • 53 10 / 11 A swirl of skirt, a hint of tanned shoulders, and a free and comfortable feeling. That's the attraction of this cotton sundress. By Hanae Mori, the dizxy combination of prints is not unlike batik and is white on navy blue. Outfit from ISETAN.
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  • 530 10 / 11 Washington Post Washington, Monday. A long-term study of contraceptive methods is highly favourable to the diaphragm, with researchers finding no material risks other than pregnancy. The pregnancy rate—2.4 per cent per year—greatly exceeds the 0.14 per cent In women In the study who used birthcontrol pills. But
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  • GRAPEVINE
    • 84 10 / 11 St. Nicholas will turn in his grave. The things they make Santa do. First they make him kiss Mummy "underneath the mistletoe one night." Then they dress him up as mini-skirted girls whom they dub as "Santarinas" and now they make him dance a samba
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    • 78 10 / 11 I know there are far too many on the executives' greeting card list that it becomes a chore to scrawl their names on the cards. But it would help If their secretaries could type or print their names below their scrawls. I have received many cards where
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    • 44 10 / 11 Glad to see that the Fire Brigade has pasted notices outside HDB lifts that say "In case of Are, please do not use the lift.". However I do wish the notice is slightly larger and Is pasted in a more prominent position.
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    • 129 10 / 11 I know In America that they're petitioning to make it illegal for mallbox stutters but I enjoy reading the unsolicited stuff I get In my mailbox. Special offer announcements, new product leaflets and quite recently election mainfestoes. A wide range of services is also offered through
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    • 377 12 A twice weekly advertisement feature Lights make a home. Depending on the types of lighting fittings you use, you can make your house look warm and cheerful. Use the wrong lights and you may end up with a house that Is dull and gloomy. It is therefore very important that
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  • 718 13 Young Asians in Britain are torn between two cultures Reuter London, Monday. Young people in Britain's millionstrong Asian community are beginning to question their parents' traditional attitudes to marriage, dress, end the family, according to a report now circulating among local government organisations and educational authorities. Aptly
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  • 919 14 But long-term problems darken horizon—economists AP New Delhi, Monday I n d i a's economy showed significant improvement this year, but the economies of the other countries on the Asian subcontinent didn't fare quite so well over the past year. Good food crops in Pakistan and
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  • 296 14 r TOKYO DBS-Daiwa Securities Int'l Ltd. Although blue chips with bright business prospects were bought, medium and low-priced blue chips lost ground on profit-taking because Friday was the final day for liquidating trades. NDJA went below Y4.900. At the opening, large-capital issues such as Nippon Steel
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  • 49 14 Reuter Amman, Monday King Khaled of Saudi Arabia returned to Riyadh last night after a 15 day private visit to Europe, Saudi Radio reported. The King left for Geneva on Dec. 11. He was accompanied by the Saudi Defence and Aviation Minister, Prince Sultan Ibn Abdul/ Aziz.
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  • 228 14 FRANKFURT Equity prices have over the last week recovered from the temEorary weakness caused y the uncertain outcome of the OPEX? meeting. The rally, however, did not carry any further as buying interest was drying up again. Inv e s tors restricted their interest mainly
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  • 327 14 UPI Tokyo, Monday Japan's new Foreign Minister lichiro Hatoyama says the question of increasing the volume of beef imports from Australia is an "urgent issue that must be solved in the first place." In an interview published in the Sunday edition of the
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  • 192 14 i MILAN Business News and Views The Italian Stock Exchange registered a positive trend during the first week of the new operating month of January 1977. In fact after the good performance of Monday session (+3 per cent) and the following consolidation, the Thursday session (the
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 262 14 c Crossword A. s J. ■■■HI 8 Wapiti 9 Buffalo hockey team 10 P.R. man 11 Certain look 12 Bridge charge 15 Dud 19 Oun: si. 21 Spring or flood 24 Leader's stick 25 Viscous substance 26 Purposeful 27 Rushed through 28 Preserved by salting 30 Australian city 31 Instinctive
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  • 396 16  -  For other karate styles MARTIAL ARTS by Wilfred Shimmen The Singapore Karate Federation have amended their constition to enable other non-Japanese karate styles to Join the federation. This is In keeping with a recent recommendation of the Martial Arts Advisory Committee of the Singapore National Sports Council
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  • 175 16 Reuter Bombay, Monday, Australians and Britons won the first three places In the two races at the International Cadet Class Tenth World Sailing Championship which opened here on Christmas Eve. Nick Rees of Australia came first in the first race on the second day
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 357 16 H mm mmd MERRY CHRISTMAS AND Prosperous New Year. Oenulne Dlscount. Various Renown Watches, Clocks, Radio, Cassettes. Visit Nightly: Nasslm E. Joseph, M 7, New World Amusement (Opposite Taltong Restaurant) Singapore. 0.30 10.30. m CALLING ALL MAGICIANS Just arrived Many new Tricks. Jokes and Novelties In time for your Christmas
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    • 424 16 STAMFORD CENTRE Singapore Excollsnco In Secretarial •MM* STAMFORD BCCBC T ARIES Top International P.S.C Exam* Of ttM London Ctiombor of Commorco Throo Yaare In Succaaaion 1074 1976 Our next course commence: Full-tlme/Part-tlme: 5/1/77. For further Information please call personally or telephone Miss Jane Tan, Counselling Information Officer or Mrs. Oeeta
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    • 348 16 ROYAL NEWTON HOTEL: ROAD. REFRESHING: SAUNA A STEAMBATH RELAXING: MASSAGE A FACIAL RING: *****1/ *****1 EXT. 131 10 a.m. 10.30 p.m. dally NAM HO TRAVEL Service (Singapore) Pte. Limited. West Malaysia tour (Inclusive Gentlng, Cameron Highlands) by deluxe alr-condttloned coach seven days SSI7S/-, six days SSISS/-, departure everyday. Denting/ Cameron
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 449 16 JLJ-J it rivivi VJ 'ANDS AT 2 □□□ID □(■□IB □□□IB BSC1E3 □□□□I HanoHm■□□□□□□□ □□□□BE3Q BBBdDBD BDBBQD No entrant submitted a solution which corresponded in all respects with the set of answers held by the judges to be the most apt and accurate in the New Nation Moneywords Puzzle, "DK." Two
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    • 49 16 5 OUT OF 49 14, 12, 43, 29, 4 ADDITIONAL NO: 3 3 CIRCLES 22, 43, 46 RESULTS OF CHRISTMAS SPECIAL DRAWS '76 1ST *****5 2ND *****2 3RD ***** 4TH 2455 5TH 9574 6TH 3366 7TH 253 8TH 329 ALL PRIZES MUST BE CLAIMED WITHIN 35 DAYS FROM TODAY
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  • 365 17 Fletcher hurts ankle Reuter Gauhati, Monday MCC batsman Keith Fletcher is almost certainly out of the second cricket Test against India after flaking a bone in his left ankle. The Essex captain, whose skill as a player of spin bowling makes him an important member of
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  • 266 17 ALL-ROUNDER GILMOUR IS HIT BY GOUT Reuter AP Adelaide, Monday The Austral lan cricket team, already hard hit by the withdrawal of fast bowler Jeff Thomson with a serious shoulder injury, suffered a further blow here yesterday when allrounder Gary Gilmour developed gout. The left-handed
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  • 177 17 Reuter Melbourne, Monday. Australian veteran Ken Rosewall raced to an effortless straight sets win over Argentinian star Gulllermo Vilas to give Australia a 4-0 clean sweep In the US$4O,OOO ($96.000) International challenge series at Kooyong here yesterday. Rosewall, 42, and Australia's rising Davis Cup star John
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  • 136 17 AP Sydney. Monday—The glamour sloop Ballyhoo steered by Jack Rooklyn took an early lead as the 630-nautlcal mile Syd-ney-to-Hobart yacht race began yesterday. The orange-hulled 23metre yacht led the record fleet of 85 craft throuKh Sydney Heads. A huge spinnaker drove It toward Hobart In
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
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  • 673 18  -  Singapore 2 Kelantan 0 By Philip Tan As expected, Singapore emerged 2-0 winners over Kelantan Jn their friendly soccer match at the National Stadium last night. But the manner in which_they carved out the victory was nothing spectacular. There is still much to be dope by
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  • 62 18 Reuter Glasgow, Monday Celtic were held to a 2-2 draw at home by Aberdeen yesterday, but retained the leadership of the Scottish premier football division on goal difference. Both Celtic and Aberdeen have 20 points from 14 matches. Dundee United are third In the table with 19
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  • 222 18  -  OPEN LETTER PHILIP TAN Diir Mr. Cmmih, Re: Kim Song I appeal to you in your •capacity as chairman of the FAS to bring Quah Kim Song back to/sb. National team. am sure thou* sands of other soccer fans Wilt also want you to do so. Let
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    • 560 18 Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions appear below Name (Mr./ Mrs /Miss) Address Tel: I— iEH fill in S missing D (F| letters S ACROSS I prH us,ng —U CLUES BELOW MBMBaBaCut along dotted linos >Maaaiaai CLUES. FOR DM-1 1. A mildly explosive sound 2. A charwoman
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  • 130 19 Ist: Senang Hati II 2nd: Miss Vera 3rd: Selamat Petang. Won' by: 2, 2.1, 1.1 (1.15 4/5). Ist: Highest Choice 2nd: Serpico 3rd: Wang IVlasok. Won bv: 3/4 3 4. 3 (1.15). Ist: Sunshine Touch 2nd: Tin Ingot 3rd: Not Guilty. Won by: sh. sh. 2,
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  • 497 19 Showing good form now RACING with Scrutineer Mission, who did not show up in his last four races, is running back to top shape. Make a special note of him. The four-year-old Eng lish gelding by Burglar created a good impression at. Penang yesterday in the Class 1
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
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  • 43 20 MEI LIN: People should support the M e d i k Awas Scheme, since it is really for their own good. AH FOOK: The problem is that many are sensitive about their aliments and allergies and want to keep them secret.
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 508 20 TV [jgj RADIO SINGAPORE 5 3 00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by VALAR FIRAI (T/r). 3.30 DIARY OF EVENTS <T>. 3.35 GENERAL HOSPITAL. 4.15 SCIENCE REPORT. 4.30 INTERMISSION. 6.00 OPENING ANNOUNCtAtKNTS followed by ACCENT ON VOUTH (r). Items Include In Search of a Dream by Crescent Girls' School, Padl Winnowing Dance
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    • 285 20 Today's top shows DINOSAURS: The Terrible Lizards. <Ch. 8. 7.50 p.m. in colour). Dinosaurs existed during the Mesozolc era which began over 100 million years ago and ended 30 million later. They flourished during this period and then disappeared completely at the end of the period. What caused the extinction
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